As a defensive person, Baggott concedes that the offense, especially at Harvard with multi-flex being thrown around all over the place, will get most of the attention, but he still wishes it made known that "there is a team on the other side of the line," and he is one of its standouts.

This weekend, his parents will be part of the overflow crowd at The Stadium. "The hardest thing is that I'm so far away," Baggott said. "This is the first time that my mother's been able to see me play."

And then there's next week, when there's no more football. "I think I'll take a week's vacation," Baggott, who wears number 91 in your program, said. "But in the off-season, there is a major difference. Four hours are freed up, but it gets to the point where you don't know what to do. I come home in the afternoon and sleep."

If he dreams about the football season just past, he probably won't have night-mares, but he will have a few mild regrets. "What hurts about this season," he said while looking forward to supper, "is that we really should have come through with it. We lost two games we should have won and everyone knows it. We're still hoping Columbia will beat Brown, because nothing is a given."

Including All-Ivy honors, but Baggottt will no doubt be a first-team performer this time around, a notch higher than the status he achieved as a sophomore when he had two interceptions and 23 tackles.

We're already talking about two interceptions and the aforementioned seven fumble recoveries for this fall, and Yale still remains, a game which Baggott says typifies everything.

"The tradition hits you in the face," Baggott said, now thoroughly disgusted with the lunch and about to leave the dining hall. "It's really a pleasure to play. I really enjoy playing Yale."

Almost as much as he enjoys recovering fumbles. "They're talking about changing my position to designated fumble recoverer," Baggott said, now halfway out the door. But watch out for falling glass.